It’s November – a time for lighting stoves; evening classes; growing amaryllis (more of this later) and essentially, a little sherry to get us through. But ‘to everything there is a season’, and in the garden right now there are some lovely ‘end of season’ hips, berries and seedheads we should be appreciating – for […]
After the glories of summer flowers, we can still revel in these bright jewels of late autumn and winter. This we week we choose our favourite 10 berries but as usual there is disagreement on wild versus cultivated varieties, the speed with which they’re consumed by birds, and even what constitutes a berry in the first […]
We all need boundaries. E and C regularly exceed theirs, so I’m not sure how much you can trust their judgement even with horticultural ones but I’ve come up with some examples of how we have chosen different plants for different purposes on the boundaries of our garden. Our front garden borders a busy road […]